Punjab’s Food and Drug Commissionerate has conducted state-wide raids to check the sale of psychotropic drugs and the compliance of Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
State Food and Drug Administration Commissioner KS Pannu on Thursday said that the Commissionerate’s drug administration wing conducted the raids.
“On the basis of secret information, an unlicensed premises was inspected at Masitan village in Sultanpur Lodhi tehsil of Kapurthala and 45 types of allopathic drugs worth Rs 46,500 were seized due to non-production of valid drugs sale licences or RMP certificate,” said Pannu
He said: “In Hoshiarpur, an inspection was conducted at Ahuja Medical Agency in Bassi Khawaju. During inspection, six types of allopathic drugs (3080 tabs of Tramadol Hydrochloride, 6500 tabs of Clonazepam and 6600tabs of Alprazolam) worth Rs 47,540 were seized and three types of drugs samples were taken for test and analysis.”
In Amritsar, eight licenses of retail sale chemists suspended due to various contraventions of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, and one unlicensed godown was sealed by the inspection conducted jointly by inspectorate staff of Amritsar and Jalandhar zone.
In seven other inspections conducted at Amritsar, three seizures were done and ffour samples were drawn for test and analysis.
At Gurdaspur, 1,026 tablets of habit forming drugs were seized from Sehtaj medical store in Marar village of Batala tehsil due to non-disclosure of source of acquisition.
Inspection at Indra Market, Patiala, revealed the absence of a qualified person in a firm and four licences of retail sale firms in Patiala were suspended due to various contraventions of D and C Rules, 1945.
The pharmacy of Ace Heart Hospital, Sector 68, Mohali, was also checked and some expired drugs were found and discarded. Samples of drugs were also drawn for test and analysis and general contraventions of D & C Act were recorded.
Inspections were also conducted in different areas of Ludhiana, Malerkotla and Ahmedgarh in Sangrur where in discrepancies pertaining to maintenance of sale or purchase records, schedule H1 register and absence of qualified person or pharmacist were observed.